Olympics-Cycling-China claim women’s team sprint gold

#xD; IZU, Japan (Reuters)– China successfully safeguarded their Olympic women’s team sprint title by defeating Germany in the last as the track cycling program got underway at the Izu Velodrome on Monday.Bao Shanju and Zhong Tianshi went across the coating line in 31.895 secs, edging the German pairing of Lea Friedrich and Emma Hinze by 0.085 seconds.The result marked

a second successive Olympic gold for Zhong, who took the Rio title with Gong Jinjie 5 years ago.Both of China’s biking golds in Olympic history have gotten here in the women’s group sprint event.Earlier, Bao and also Zhong damaged China’s very own team sprint

globe record mark with a time of 31.804 in their preliminary triumph over Lithuania.Russian Olympic Board’s Daria Shmeleva and also Anastasiia Voinova defeated Netherlands duo Laurine van Riessen and also Shanne Braspennincx in the third place suit to take the bronze.( Reporting by Shiho Tanaka in Izu as well as Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru; Editing by Ken Ferris )& #xD; 12:30

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